We were having a conversation about God. Again. In the conversation we looked at how He as the authority spoke creation into being. It responded in the light of His word because He is authority. He speaks and it is. No one has that power. No one. It’s something that makes Him unique as the […]
Read More Hope of Harmony – But Not As We ExpectHe said. She said. We want to hear someone say what he said so that we know. It is not always possible to get it straight from the source and when that is not possible, the nearest we can get is as good as anything. Yet some folks really rely on the secondhand sources. To […]
Read More Firsthand InsightIt’s about time you owned that. Stop deflecting. Stop blaming others for the situation. Stop putting it down to apparent factors beyond control as though you have successfully deluded yourself into thinking there was nothing you could do. Stop that. Look at where it’s got you and consider carefully how it has not brought you […]
Read More Repentance and ResponsibilityThere are plenty of warnings against presumption. There was a study I was doing with someone on the term ‘complacency’ and there’s a lot of presumption to be seen in what leads to that. People get so comfortable in what they believe they know and what position they think they’re in and before they know […]
Read More There’s A Call For YouThis man had a dream and in that dream he was approached by God. God spoke to him and offered him the opportunity to ask for anything and it would be granted to him. If that was offered to you, how would you respond? It’s an interesting question to ponder because this man gave a […]
Read More What Would You Ask?“It will come.” “How do you know it will come?” “Well I was assured that it will come.” “How do you know you can trust that assurance?” “I’ve been able to trust it before. It has never let me down.” “Just because it hasn’t before, how do you know it won’t now? There’s a first […]
Read More Living in Expectation: An Ongoing ConversationThey messed up her pay and they weren’t going to sort it out. For all the fuss she was making about it, she wasn’t getting anywhere. How can you tell her that He does all things well? One of his daughters was raped. One of his sons killed another of his sons and then spent […]
Read More He Does All Things Well?There are certain phrases that make me chuckle. One of them that I heard being referred to is don’t get ahead of yourself It was something I heard whenever I got excited about something that I was going to do, or something I was going to get that I really wanted. Typically my Mum would […]
Read More Don’t Get Ahead Of YourselfAccording to the one earthly being I love above all others, I can sometimes use fifteen words to explain something that she might need in five. She prefers the five. She was overjoyed, then, when we sat around a table with some good friends sharing life together. One of our friends shared something very simple […]
Read More Converse, Connect, Understand & ActThere is some innate sense of when something is deserved. A friend and I were watching a football match recently. Two teams faced each other. The away team had a great record going into the match and were said to be the favourites for the match. They gave indications as to why they should have […]
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